[Reborn!] - Tracing Back The Lines

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Title: Tracing Back The Lines
Fandom: Katekyo Hitman Reborn
Pairing: Hibari/Hibari
Rating: PG
Warning: Self-cest ♥
Prompt: 65. TYL!Hibari/Hibari - insight; you've grown
Word count: 376
for khrfest

His instinct told him the man in front of him was not a dangerous person even if he had a mysterious smile on his face. Dark hair, steel eyes, calm exterior - Hibari knew he was seeing himself.

An older version of his own self.

He was glued to the ground when the older man lowered his face to look into his eyes as if trying to find traces of life he once had in his younger self. Hibari, the younger Hibari, snapped out of his trance when cold fingers brushed against his pale skin.

He jumped backwards, assuming a fighting stance. “What are you?” He asked, as opposed to ‘who are you’ one would normally ask.

The older Hibari answered with a small laugh reminiscent of Rokudo Mukuro’s, which annoyed his younger self greatly.

“I’m exactly what you think I am,” a pause, and then he added, “self.”

The younger drank in the sight of the person he would one day become. Taller, calmer… dare he say manlier? If this was what he would be in ten years, he wouldn’t mind this awkward encounter. He watched as the older Hibari once again reached out to him to take his face in his hands, tracing the contours of his face gently with his fingers.

“You’ve grown,” the older man sighed into the younger’s ears. “I would have tried to kill me if I was once the exact same person as you are now. I guess we have this crazy secret war strategies to thank.”

Confusing words. Confusing comparisons… Confusing everything.

Younger Hibari mirrored his older counterpart, tracing the contours of the older man’s face with curious fingers, pausing to linger a little bit longer at fading traces of battle scars on the sides of the man’s face. Battle scars… he liked them.

“You’re not exactly what I picture myself to be in ten years,” he whispered against the older Hibari’s skin, inching closer towards the man’s lips, eager to find out if it would feel like kissing a mirror.

“But you like what I am?”

“Hnn. I guess.”

The older Hibari laughed before placing a chaste kiss on his younger self’s lips. “Admitting without much of a fight? You’ve really grown.”

“Shut up, old man.”

“Touché.”

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